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Historical Event on 12/31/1995

K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1856Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born.
3/1/1962Gaya University renamed as Magadh University.
4/3/1946Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive.
6/21/1991P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister of India. He reimained in this office till May 16, 1996. He formed a 54-member ministry in the 10th Parliament.
12/20/1929The Indian State Air Service, an extension of Imperial Airways' routes, opens its inaugural service from Karachi to Delhi.
5/22/1996Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
5/22/1996Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born.
9/4/1983INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully.
12/29/1972Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.